Legal Opinion
South Dakota Public Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 25, 1981No. 79-2020PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge, with whom LAY, Chief Judge, and BRIGHT and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, join.
This matter is before the Court en banc on the petition of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to review an order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The order permitted the Northern Natural Gas Company (Northern) to depreciate certain equipment over a period of time shorter than its physical life on the theory that Northern’s supplies of natural gas would be exhausted prior to the time the equipment became obsolete. When the matter was first before a panel of this Court,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Placid Oil Company, Sola II v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Tenneco Oil Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nos. 76-2960Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
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